Word: craziest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...majestic wrongheadedness . . . Brobdingnagian bad judgments." Gunther on Bricker: "Intellectually he is like interstellar space-a vast vacuum occasionally crossed by homeless, wandering clichés." Gunther finds U.S. public life full of "poltroons, chiselers, parvenus . . . politicians bloated with intellectual edema." But after all, he says, the U.S. is the "craziest, most dangerous, least stable, most spectacular, least grownup, and most powerful and magnificent nation ever known...
With that statement, few would quarrel. What made it craziest was the fact that nothing could stop people from buying ball-points by the thousands, despite the fact that they 1) often failed to work (Reynolds alone got back 104,643 defective pens in his first eight months) or 2) oozed ink all over hands and paper. The ink in some pens even fermented, and blew the balls right out of the pens. But buyers kept right on coming. Said one bemused pen man: "They're like horse players. They figure they can beat the odds...
...Perelman is one of the craziest foxes and dreamiest departments and funniest men on three wheels. Some people don't realize how long ago he started pounding off the drivel on the 47-key machine, but Boston's favorite underground theatre, the Laffmovie, has come up with the evidence. Make that gruesome evidence...
...Marx Brothers (Groucho, Chico, Harpo, and--this'll kill ya-Zeppo) are some of the craziest foxes and dreamiest departments and funniest men on twelve wheels. Some people don't realize how long ago they started pounding off the drivel on the celluloid reels, but Boston's favorite underground theatre, mentioned above, has come up with the evidence. Make that gruesome evidence...
...British have organized a society for protection against mothers-in-law, but what we really need in this country is an organization for protection against ex-mothers-in-law. I would like to be a charter member." Said Winchell, on his program two hours later: "Very special bulletin! The craziest woman in Washington, D.C. is not yet confined at St. Elizabeth's Hospital for the insane. She is, however, expected any edition...